Good morning and welcome to the increase your impact podcast. I'm Justin Sua, episode

1,784. I saw an interview of Steven Spielberg and I, a legendary director who directed

many iconic movies. One of them being Jaws from 1975. Now for those of you who do not know

of the movie Jaws never heard of it, it's this horror-slash thriller movie of a man eating

shark who terrorized the shores. And Steven Spielberg ends up describing or saying that the shark

who they named Bruce, the mechanical shark, broke right when they put it into the salty water.

Now with its main character on the injured list, Steven Spielberg had to get creative.

He had envisioned that Bruce, the shark, was going to be in many scenes that it was going to show

him slittering through and chomping at people and just showing images of him swimming and getting

close to people's feet as they're trying to escape him. But because they didn't have mechanical

shark, they just had to shoot the movie from the shark's point of view chasing people.

Now in the interview, Spielberg says something really interesting. The person goes and they ask him

if it actually made the movie better. And he said that I think it torched up the suspension

of the movie. Rather than seeing the shark in every scene, I played a lot of the fear from the

people in the water and seeing their legs kicking from the point of view of the shark.

That's what turned the movie into more of an exercise and suspense than just a horror film.

And then the interviewer says so when you wanted it, you probably would have had a different movie.

And he says I probably would have had a different movie that wouldn't have been as successful.

Spielberg also goes on to say I think the film would have made half the money had the shark to work.

Worked. Close quote. What a great lesson. A lot of times you might go into a certain situation

and things don't turn out the way you want. Maybe the field is bad. Maybe the weather is bad.

Maybe something you had anticipated and expected working doesn't work. And you have to adjust.

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